Principal Engineer, Identity & Authorization

Position Type Full Time Career area Software Engineering Location Remote Job ID R\-90323* Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It’s a place where passionate individuals come together to create the future of sport. We are unapologetic about who we are and what we’re after—bringing innovation and inspiration to every athlete\* in the world. We look for athletes who can push boundaries, elevate our potential and continue leading us to greatness. The next tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players. Are you game? Open to remote work except in South Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia. The annual base salary for this position ranges from $149,100\.00 in our lowest geographic market to $313,900\.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience. Information about benefits can be found here. **Position Location \& Schedule** This position is based at our incredibly beautiful worldwide campus headquarters location in Beaverton, Oregon. You'll work a "4/1 hybrid" schedule \- Mondays \- Thursdays are in the office and it's optional if you'd like to work Fridays from the Nike campus office or your home office. **Who You’ll Work With** Nike's Enterprise Identity \& Access Management team enables secure digital experiences across workforce, consumer, partner, and machine identity ecosystems. This Principal Engineer partners with Security, Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Product Engineering leaders to shape authorization capabilities used across Nike's global technology organization. **Who We Are Looking For** We're looking for a Principal Engineer to help define the future of authorization at Nike. This role will lead the transformation from fragmented, application\-specific access controls to a modern, enterprise\-wide authorization platform where access decisions are defined as policy, evaluated centrally, and consistently enforced across applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data systems, and business processes. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in authorization architecture, distributed systems, and identity platforms, along with a passion for solving complex security and business challenges through scalable engineering solutions. They are recognized technical leaders who can influence enterprise strategies, establish architectural standards, and align diverse engineering organizations around a shared vision for identity and access. Success in this role requires the ability to translate business intent, security requirements, and governance controls into reusable authorization services and policy frameworks that enable agility, strengthen security, and reduce operational complexity across Nike's global technology ecosystem. **The candidate should have:** * Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training in Computer Science, Sof